Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!geac!alias!barney!rae
From: rae@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Reid Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: enums and function/method return values
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Date: 2 Feb 91 20:40:48 GMT
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Sender: Reid Ellis <rae%alias@csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: Reid Ellis <rae@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
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Kent Sandvik <ksand@apple.com> writes:
>I'm not sure that this is syntactically OK, but I would like to
>achieve better function return value scoping using enums. Ex:
>
>class TFoo {
>public:
>       TFoo(){};
>       virtual eFoobar GetStatus(void){ return fStatus;};
>       enum eFoobar {OK, NOK, MAYBE};
>private:
>       eFoobar fStatus;
>};

The problem is that you are using the type 'eFoobar' before it is
defined.  Simply move the "enum eFoobar {..};" line to the top of the
class and everything should be okay.

					Reid
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